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The 5th Circuit Says Criminalizing Journalism Is Not Obviously Unconstitutional: The Appeals Court Dismissed a Civil Rights Lawsuit by a Laredo Gadfly Who Was Arrested for Asking Questions Jan. 31, 2024
Five years ago, the Harris County, Texas, Institute of Forensic Sciences sent me reports on the auto... Read More
A Blatantly Unconstitutional Gun Edict Highlights the Hazards of Emergency Powers: New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham Thinks Violent Crime Gives Her a License to Rule by Decree Sep. 13, 2023
When New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued "a public health emergency order" that purportedl... Read More
Louisville Police Abuses Show Civil Liberties Are Meaningless Without Accountability: Supervisors and Judges Tolerated Outrageous Constitutional Violations, Including Illegal Searches and Brutal Assaults Mar. 15, 2023
The form that Louisville, Kentucky, police officers use when they seek search warrants includes a li... Read More
California's COVID-19 'Misinformation' Law Chills Constitutionally Protected Speech: The State Is Threatening to Punish Doctors Whose Advice Deviates From the 'Scientific Consensus' Nov. 23, 2022
The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which Columbia University legal scholar Philip Hamburger founded i... Read More
Handgun Carry Permits Transform a Right Into a Privilege: The Argument for Loosening Restrictions on Armed Self-Defense Goes Beyond the Measurable Impact on Public Safety Mar. 30, 2022
As of last week, 24 states have decided to let law-abiding adults carry handguns in public without a... Read More
The Government Can Take Your Cash for No Reason Feb. 12, 2022
If you carry too much cash, the federal government can take it away from you. Yep, you read that rig... Read More
AOC's Ugly Delegitimization of SCOTUS Dec. 03, 2021
The fact that the Supreme Court hasn't ruled on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health abortion case di... Read More
Our Inflexible, Outdated Constitution Nov. 26, 2021
A national constitution ought to reflect a society's fundamental values by defining a set of legal p... Read More
Capital Punishment Still Serves Its Purpose. Don't Abolish It. Nov. 19, 2021
Bowing to intense political pressure, Oklahoma's Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of one of the ... Read More
Biden-Harris/Trump-Pence Race 'Tightening' Aug. 14, 2020
Just as Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his vice presidential nominee, and a week before the De... Read More
Dems' Impeachment Trickery Dec. 04, 2019
On Wednesday, House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., takes over as ringmaster for ... Read More
Can a Giant Christian Cross Be Secular?: Challenge to Maryland WWI Memorial Illustrates Confusion Caused by Supreme Court's Establishment Clause Cases Feb. 27, 2019
Let's talk about the constitutional significance of bushes at the foot of the 40-foot-high, 16-ton c... Read More
Are Boycotts Protected by the First Amendment? Only If You Like the Cause They Serve, According to Supporters of Laws That Target the Anti-Israel BDS Movement Jan. 09, 2019
I am not one of those people who keep track of the policies, positions and practices of every busine... Read More
Stop Ignoring Double Jeopardy: The Supreme Court Should Reconsider the Misbegotten Dual Sovereignty Doctrine Dec. 05, 2018
No one disputes that Terance Gamble, who was convicted of second-degree robbery in 2008, broke the l... Read More
Spending and Morality Jul. 09, 2014
During last year's budget negotiation meetings, President Barack Obama told House Speaker John Boehn... Read More
No Intervention in Iraqi Civil War Without Congressional Authorization Jun. 18, 2014
On Jan. 12, 1991, with 370,000 U.S. troops already deployed near Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, and a U.N.de... Read More
